Traveling through Hokkaido with a disgruntled salaryman seeking a lost love (Eiji Funakoshi) Read More »
Monthly Archives: August 2022
Nissim dit Max (2004) Pierre Léon, Vladimir Léon, Jacques Rossi, Marina Vlady
Two brothers ask their father about his communist years, then their mother, and sister. Read More »
The Emperor’s Nightingale AKA Cisaruv slavík (1949) Jirí Trnka, Milos Makovec, Helena Patockova, Jaromir Sobotoa, Detsky pevecky sbor Jana Kuhna
A Chinese emperor prefers the tinkling of a bejeweled mechanical bird to the song of a real nightingale. Read More »
The Night Before Christmas AKA Vechera na khutore bliz Dikanki (1961) Aleksandr Rou, Aleksandr Khvylya, Lyudmila Myznikova, Yuri Tavrov
The whimsical combination of Christmas phantasmagoria and an eccentric fairy tale Read More »
Caligula Reincarnated As Nero AKA Nerone e Poppea (1982) Bruno Mattei, Antonio Passalia, Piotr Stanislas, Françoise Blanchard, Patricia Derek
History tells us that Nero was the Emperor who fiddled while Rome burned. Read More »
The Stranglers of Bombay (1959) Terence Fisher, Guy Rolfe, Allan Cuthbertson, Andrew Cruickshank
In the 1830s, a captain in the East India Company lobbies to investigate Read More »
Mysterious Island of Beautiful Women (1979) Joseph Pevney, Steven Keats, Jaime Lyn Bauer, Jayne Kennedy
Some men in a plane land on an uncharted island. Read More »
Twelve Chairs AKA Zwölf Stühle (2004) Ulrike Ottinger, Georgiy Deliev, Gennadiy Skarga, Svetlana Dyagilyeva
In her glorious adaptation of Ilya Ilf and Yevgeni Petrov’s 1920s Soviet satirical novel Read More »
Holy Emy (2021) Araceli Lemos, Abigael Loma, Hasmine Killip, Eirini Inglesi
A young Filipina searches for the missing links between her strange bleeding condition Read More »
All of Me (1963) Joel Holt, Brenda Denaut, Alice Denham
This film features Brenda Denaut, born Mardiningsih Olivia Nowak in Evanston, Illinois in 1939. Read More »